Welcome to Peachpit's new Lightroom Resource Center

Just when you feel like you’re getting pretty decent at Adobe Photoshop, along comes Photoshop Lightroom.

Perhaps you cast a jaundiced eye at this new software. You thought, "Photoshop works just fine for me, thank you. And everything I’ve read about what you can do in Lightroom sounds suspiciously like what I can already do with Photoshop, Bridge, and Camera Raw."

But as a digital photographer, you can’t ignore the buzz that’s been building around Lightroom. Designed from the ground up for people like you, Lightroom offers a streamlined approach to importing, processing, and managing large libraries of images. If you shoot raw images, you’ll find Lightroom indispensable. That’s because unlike Photoshop, in which all image data is loaded at once, Lightroom uses a system that lets you work on a lightweight version of the image, deferring intensive pixel-crunching until later. It’s fast, it’s sleek, it’s a
new way of working with images.